TROB
2002
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2002
We describe a one-joint planar arm which repeatedly throws and catches parts on its surface, and we demonstrate that proper choice of the throw velocity and arm geometry guarantees...
TROB
2002
14 years 29 days ago
2002
TROB
2002
14 years 29 days ago
2002
Reconfigurable software is highly desired for automated machine tool control systems for low-cost products and short time to market. In this paper, we propose a software architectu...
TROB
2002
14 years 29 days ago
2002
Abstract-- The problem addressed is the distributed reconfiguration of a metamorphic robotic system composed of an arbitrary number of two dimensional hexagonal robots (modules) fr...
TROB
2002
2002
DPAC: an object-oriented distributed and parallel computing framework for manufacturing applications
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Parallel and distributed computing infrastructure are increasingly being embraced in the context of manufacturing applications, including real-time scheduling. In this paper, we pr...
TROB
2002
14 years 29 days ago
2002
Abstract-- Vision feedback control loop techniques are efficient for a large class of applications but they come up against difficulties when the initial and desired robot position...
TROB
2002
14 years 29 days ago
2002
Abstract--With the services that autonomous robots are to provide becoming more demanding, the states that the robots have to estimate become more complex. In this article, we deve...
TROB
2002
14 years 29 days ago
2002
Robotic soccer is a challenging research domain because many different research areas have to be addressed in order to create a successful team of robot players. This paper present...
TROB
2002
2002
Hormone-inspired adaptive communication and distributed control for CONRO self-reconfigurable robots
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This paper presents a biologically inspired approach to two basic problems in modular self-reconfigurable robots: adaptive communication in self-reconfigurable and dynamic networks...
TROB
2002
14 years 29 days ago
2002
This paper addresses the problem of achieving exact dynamic force control with manipulators possessing the low-level position and/or velocity controllers typically employed in indu...